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Chapter 562 Blackmail

The two of them were about to follow in, but listened to the officer who commanded "You Ai Fuou" and said, "Your Majesty, the martial arts are ready."

"Let's show them." Qin Lei said nothing, and after saying that, he left.

Prince Rong looked at each other, then followed Shi Meng into the car and drove towards the Qin army formation.

"May I ask, General, what are we going to see?" Prince Rong asked softly.

"Take Machine." Shi Meng didn't look back and said to the two with a big head: "My prince ordered a catapult to be placed in front of the formation. You can see it yourself."

The two stopped talking and followed Shi Meng to the front of the Qin army's position. Less than 600 feet away from the city wall, they saw a huge weapon... Set here to avoid the range of most of the precise weapons on the city tower, including the terrifying crossbow, which can only be reached by the Qi army's catapult, but the range of that thing is really unreliable, and even the Qi people would not expect it.

I saw that the Qin State's foot was two meters tall, and one rod arm was more than six meters tall. The rod arm was dragged by the end of the winch, and the stone bullet was already loaded into the leather pocket.

Prince Rong had seen his own catapult cart, so he could naturally see the biggest difference between the two... Qi State needed a few or even a dozen soldiers to pull the lever arm. However, Qin State had only two soldiers, who were lifting the heavy objects through a winch. Although he didn't know how the effect was, he felt advanced just by looking at this posture.

"Let me show them." Shi Meng said in a deep voice: "The target is right in front of the target, with maximum range to launch!"

"The city wall of your country is seven meter high." Shi Meng introduced in a deep voice: "The highest projection height of our catapult is fifteen meter, so it is more than enough to cross the city wall." Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud noise. The pumpkin-sized stone bullet flew out in the blink of an eye, drawing a graceful arc, crossing the city wall and falling into the city.

Then I heard a faint sound of thunder from the city, and black smoke rose... It turned out to be on fire.

Prince Rong couldn't help but squirted, and whined in his heart: "What kind of world is this? Why are the weapons of the Western Barbarians equally advanced? It makes us Da Qi unable to survive?" The infantry of Qi and various siege and defending cities have always been ahead of the other two countries. Among them, various war equipment were regarded as "trump card" by the Qi court, and the manufacturing process was strictly conserved.

If even the equipment is not as good as the Qin State, how can I play?

Monk Huineng was still calm and clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, has your army been marching with such heavy equipment?"

"You Qi people always think that we Qin people are too stupid." Shi Meng smiled proudly and said, "Tell you that the catapult cart is actually a winch, belt, and a few key points, such as a winch, a belt, and a little rod. When we marched, we only brought these parts, and the rest were just taken locally." As he said that, he patted his chest, and Cowhi said, "As long as there are wood and stones, one hundred can be made in a day." This is pure bragging, but the other party doesn't know.

When the two of them thought that there would be hundreds of such big guys, throwing burning objects into the city in white and black, they were frightened and said to themselves: "Isn't that like living in a stove?" They ignored a problem, that is, this thing can only be used by the houses near the city walls, and for those adults living in the center of Kyoto, it has no effect at all.

But no one would remind them that Shi Meng wanted them to think so.

Prince Rong and Zen Master Huineng once again met each other, and saw fear and compromise in each other's eyes. Then they sighed and said to Shi Meng: "If you have time, please send us back. We all understand what the prince means."

Shi Meng immediately smiled and said, "It's great if you understand. Look at your Meishan trees have been rotating for hundreds of years. It's a pity to cut them down."

Prince Rong thought to himself: "As long as birds of a feather flock together, and the second prince was full of such uncontrolled soldiers." Then he boarded the car and returned to the central army's tent.

After entering the tent, Qin Lei and the Qin generals were nowhere to be seen.

I asked the only servant in the account and the reply I received was: "The first phase is over, and my prince is going to have a meal."

It was so rude that Prince Rong was so angry that he rolled his eyes and said, "We have not had a drop of water in the morning and had not eaten the rice, but he went to eat? Where is the etiquette? What is the demeanor?"

Shi Gan shrugged and said, "I told you that the prince is in a state of hostility and we cannot have a meal with the enemy." He bowed and said, "As long as you sign the contract, the prince will personally hold a banquet to treat you to a meal." As he said that, he turned around and left the two of them in the field.

"Who cares..." As soon as the only outsider left, Prince Rong's playfulness broke out. He raised his sleeves and said, "The Western Barbarians are Western Barbarians, and prisoners are prisoners!" When he said this, he looked at the old monk, hoping that the national master could say a few words of confrontation so that he could share the same hatred of the enemy.

But Monk Huineng's eyes were staring straight at the opposite wall...

Following the old monk's gaze, Prince Rong found a map hanging there, and some eye-catching circles were outlined with red pens on the map. He walked over and looked carefully, and sniffed it soundly and said, "Don't say it, it's quite exquisite, Forbidden City, Wanshou Palace, Prime Minister's Mansion, Yumeng Mansion, Prince Rong Mansion..." As he said, he was speechless, staring at the map with his eyes straight, and after a long time he said: "This is actually a detailed map of Shangjing City..."

The old monk stared at the place where the 'Huguo Temple' was, and his tone could not hide his horror: "Why should we circle our residence?"

After all, Prince Rong was not old and had to turn his mind faster. Suddenly he thought of a possibility, he blurted out: "Is it not to use the trencher and 'Youaifuou'... to burn all these places?" They only heard Qin Lei and Shi Meng blowing so magically, but they didn't know that these two things had fatal flaws. One was to calculate wherever they fell, and the other was even worse, and at most they could only beat the edge drum.

This is the disadvantage of finding a young man with a religious person to negotiate... Although they seem smart, it is normal to be fooled by others because of their lack of professional knowledge.

The old monk Huineng was stunned at first, then slowly shook his head and said, "If you smash and burn all these places, what else can you talk about?" As he said that, he believed his inference, looked up at the map in a steady voice, and said in a deep voice: "It should be a shocking mountain..."

"I remember he seemed to say five million taels?" Prince Rong sat down dejectedly, picked up the dirty porcelain bowl, and sent it to his mouth a few times. He still couldn't drink it, so he had to put the bowl heavily and said helplessly: "You can really open your mouth. Even if you move the treasury to him, you may not be able to get so much." Don't look at his stubbornness, in fact, he has the intention to give money.

"Okay, just as you mean, it's not five million." Seeing Prince Cheng walk in, his Qin generals also patted their stomachs and came back with a red face, as if they had drunk some wine.

After the generals sat down, Qin Lei continued to speak with the words just now, but the turn of the conversation was unbearable. He only heard him slowly: "Seven million, silver, gold, jade and antiques are not disgusted."

The two of them were stunned and thought to themselves: 'How can there be such a bargaining?' Prince Rong bowed and smiled bitterly: "Since ancient times, negotiations have been 'sky asking for the price everywhere, and paying the money by sitting on the ground'. The prince has long asked for the price of five million taels. Now, Xiao Wang should be 're sitting on the ground'. How can you add it further?"

Qin Lei laughed and said, "I'm relying on this." As he said that, he took out a piece of letter paper from his sleeve and put it in front of Prince Rong's eyes: "Look at it for yourself, is this news worth two million taels?"

He took the paper suspiciously and looked at it. He saw only two lines of slightly sloppy words on it and said: "Nearly ten places like the Prime Minister's Mansion are in full swing..." The questions that the two were still worried about just now had an answer.

After a long silence, Prince Rong finally lowered his head and said, "Five million taels of silver."

"Six and five million taels." Finally entered the bargaining stage.

"At most, 5.5 million taels," Prince Rong said firmly: "This has to let the princes and nobles gather together."

"I don't care about this." Qin Lei said unmoved: "When I was in the capital, who didn't know that Prince Rong was full of wealth and had a huge fortune. He wanted to push his whole body without bleeding?"

"Six million taels, I really can't add them." Prince Rong was almost driven crazy and bowed to Qin Lei and said, "This is Xiao Wang who has to raise most of the funds... If there is more, he is really powerless."
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